Gardinia

Gardinia is a small rural village located on the eastern end of the Great Northern Forest. It is famed for it's collection of herb gardens which claim some of the rarest varieties of plants to be found in the valley. It's midwives, herbalists, and doctors are well regarded throughout the valley.

It is well known now, that the actual leadership of Gardinia are eight mages, each of whom have earned their status by mastering one 1/8 of Arch mage Gillian Reijolt's "Master's tome". These are the some of the last remaining notes of how to create magic for the new organizational structures of the world, and the eight disciplines, Master Reijnolt argued would make up the new foundation of magical construction. So far, he's been correct. The disciplines are as follows. Masters are called after their number, and otherwise keep their identities fairly secretive. Even their families do not divulge which master is which.
 * 1) Anima: The magic of the body, mind, and life
 * 2) Fire: The magic of the flame and heat
 * 3) Plants The magic of binding commanding magic, and working with wood
 * 4) Metal: The magic of commanding and binding metal and the elements therein
 * 5) Air: the magic of controlling the air and weather
 * 6) Water:the control of that which is the basis for all life
 * 7) Death: The control of that happens in the spirit world and when life slides into death
 * 8) Earth: That from which we are all from and returned to.

Currently the wizards are setting up a school in Gardenia, and are looked at as heroes for closing the bore drill by the Orcs, and saving the valley from invasion.